Lance Corporal GEORGE PURVES
Service Number: 1721
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Engineers
1st/1st City of Edinburgh Field Coy.
Date of Death
Died 01 July 1916
Age 33 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of George and Margaret Purves, of 2, Elm Row, Luth Walk, Edinburgh; husband of Jessie Boyd Purves, of 8, Sunnybank Terrace, Edinburgh.
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